Comments on: jQuery UI 1.7 Released: New CSS Framework & Dramatic Updates to Controls

By: munawar786

munawar786 — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 13:24:48 +0000

is it me or the rounded corners are still missing for IE ?

By: Jadet

Jadet — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 23:55:21 +0000

Nice work, that’s looking a lot more stable since the previous Ajaxian post. Might have to starting using this sometime when I can’t avoid using jquery. I wish Prototype(UI) wasn’t as dead as it is, while there’s plenty of plugins some UI competition wouldn’t hurt “hint”.

By: Rey Bango

Rey Bango — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 22:42:05 +0000

@Damir: If there are limitations, you should definitely ping the jQuery devs via the UI dev mailing list & explain your points. They may be able to address some of your concerns.
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http://groups.google.com/group/jquery-ui-dev

By: DamirSecki

DamirSecki — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 21:58:02 +0000

I really love the idea of jQueryUI and for now I am really disappointed…

it seems it is taking jQuery team for ever to build a decent library

there has been more than 2 yrs since interface library and on the outside it seems no real progress has been done….

I am really disappointed that dialogs works really chunky and that they are not smooth (not responsive and chunky dragging

and there is still no tree widget/component…..extJS has one, a great one, for years now

I love jQuery and I can’t imagine my life without it, that’s why I am expecting so much from UI, but as I see it now, it still a long way for being usable in real life

By: Nosredna

Nosredna — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 20:39:03 +0000

@ScottJehl,

I’ve already mentioned it on one of the jQueryUI Google Groups.

Seems to me that there has to be a visual change of some sort on mousedown, at least for anything that acts remotely like a button.

This makes jQueryUI feel “dead” or “broken.” To be honest, I’ve given up on jQueryUI for now. But I’ll try again when you get to 1.8.

By: ScottJehl

ScottJehl — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 20:25:54 +0000

@Nosredna: It would be nice if you posted your issue to the ui-dev group (http://groups.google.com/group/jquery-ui-dev) so we can chat about it and make fixes where appropriate. I think you make a good point about some of the buttons, but overall most widgets employ 3 button states at some point. For example, Accordion and tabs have the same states as the slider handles you mentioned. The days in the datepicker grid do too, though the arrow buttons could use mousedown states. Dialog does need some state help as well, though clicks in the dialog almost always close it, making that less noticeable.

As for the other elements on the page, those aren’t UI widgets, but just state previews. We can improve how those are presented in ThemeRoller, but they are not part of the widget library.

I’ll look forward to chatting about this on the ui-dev list. Thanks!

By: ScottJehl

ScottJehl — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 20:11:03 +0000

Just a heads up – it seems the dialog problem is just an issue with the website demos (not the library code). I think there’s a little extra script being included by mistake and dialogs are being called twice.

We’re actively working out the kinks on the website to improve its performance and we’ll try to get this issue worked out as soon as we can.

You can browse the demos in SVN to confirm:
http://jquery-ui.googlecode.com/svn/tags/1.7/demos/dialog/

By: Nosredna

Nosredna — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 16:42:43 +0000

My problem is with the states. When you click a button, it simply has to change state–it can’t look like the hover state. Of all the widgets featured in ThemeRoller, only the slider shows a state change when you click on something.

To me, that makes the UI feel broken. I did use jQueryUI in one project, but I won’t use it again until this is fixed. I can’t think of a modern UI that works this way. It’s disturbing.

I’ve mentioned this several times, as have others, and I’ve heard that they are working on it so I remain optimistic.

The ThemeRoller is a terrific thing, btw.

By: sos

sos — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 16:07:00 +0000

I’m getting the same issue as “wintercriminal” with the dialog boxes in FF3. Also, I’m seeing bugs in the animation effects in FF3.

Overall, many of the widgets need quite a lot of CSS work. They lack polish compared to Ext-JS and YUI, even Dojo.

By: rdworth

rdworth — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 15:47:18 +0000

The site has gotten a ton of traffic, and is buckling a bit. We’re getting things switched over to s3 and google’s cdn and should have it back up quite soon. Thanks.

By: Jonny

Jonny — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 15:44:22 +0000

Yep…down…it WAS working before.

By: ExtAnimal

ExtAnimal — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 14:40:40 +0000

The jquery UI page is down?

By: wintercriminal

wintercriminal — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 14:22:39 +0000

hm, something is very wrong with the speed of the dialog widget. I use ff3/win – when i click on various dialog examples i have 3-4s delay between click and dialog showing up (first there is background, then stripes, then dialog). its pretty useles in that form (if it’s a matter of preloading maybe you should think about doing it on examples page – now it looks like a very sluggish ui). also, closing works only after second click on the X or Cancel buttons.

By: RobKoberg

RobKoberg — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 14:18:01 +0000

no tree? sigh…